One of the great benefits of having dental implants vs dentures is that your choice of diet is not restricted. As dental implants are placed directly into the jawbone and act as an artificial root, once they have become established you will be able to eat pretty much anything that you want and would be able to with your natural teeth. This is one of the main benefits of this procedure according to many of the patients at our Derby dental practice. As you would expect though, there is a period after the implants have been placed<\/a> where there is a need to place great care on what you eat. It is only natural that an invasive procedure such as this will cause some soreness and tenderness in the area of the procedure, not to mention the potential damage that could be done to a dental implant if anything hard was bitten into to.<\/p>\n The following are a few tips that you may find useful and a quick read may help you to avoid any pain and damage that may be caused by not eating wisely following your implant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are best avoided for a while. As you would expect, the area of the implant will be pretty sensitive for a while and heat will be exaggerated. It may also have the effect of expanding the blood vessels and potentially opening the wound. Make sure that you allow your food and drink to cool before consuming.<\/p>\n This one should really go without saying. If you bite down on hard food too soon, you will certainly feel pain and may also cause the implant to fail. It simply isn’t worth the risk, or the pain to do this. Make sure that when you have had the implant, you eat very soft foods and in fact, it may not hurt for a few days at least to swallow only liquids to avoid any kind of pressure on your implant. Even foods that are potentially soft can cause surprises. Broccoli for example is soft, but an undercooked part of a stalk may prove to be too hard for your implant, especially in the first few days after it has been placed.<\/p>\n As a rule of thumb, you should start your post implant diet with liquids for a few days and then progress to soft foods such as mashed potatoes and soft fish. Be sure to mash the potatoes well though as a hard lump may well cause pain. As time goes by you might like to add risottos and pasta into your diet and gradually move towards chewier foods such as meat and finally, once the implant is happily settled, you should even be able to eat toffees if you wish.<\/p>\n Above all, exercise caution and if, for example, you have been eating mashed potatoes for a while, don\u2019t jump too far and head for the toffees, try something in between such as chicken. Just a little common sense will go a long way in looking after your new dental implant. We will offer full guidance, support and advice for post implant care during your time with us at the Derby Dental Implant Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A common “post implant” question One of the great benefits of having dental implants vs dentures is that your choice of diet is not restricted. As dental implants are placed directly into the jawbone and act as an artificial root, once they have become established you will be able to eat pretty much anything that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derbydentalimplants.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hot food and drink<\/h3>\n
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